This document provides information about various landmarks and neighborhoods in New York City. It discusses the five boroughs (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Bronx, and Staten Island) that make up New York City and provides details about several famous landmarks in each borough, including Central Park, Times Square, the Statue of Liberty, Broadway, Wall Street, and more. It also gives brief histories and descriptions of neighborhoods like Chinatown, Greenwich Village, and financial districts.

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3. New York CityNew York City is a city in the southern end of the state of New York, and is theis a city in the southern end of the state of New York, and is the
most populous city in the United States of America. New York City is a globalmost populous city in the United States of America. New York City is a global
economic center, with its business, finance, trading, law, and mediaeconomic center, with its business, finance, trading, law, and media
organizations influential worldwide. The city is also an important culturalorganizations influential worldwide. The city is also an important cultural
center, with many museums, galleries, and performance venues. Home ofcenter, with many museums, galleries, and performance venues. Home of
the United Nations, the city is a hub for international diplomacy. With over 8.2the United Nations, the city is a hub for international diplomacy. With over 8.2
million residents within an area of 322 square miles (830 km²), New York Citymillion residents within an area of 322 square miles (830 km²), New York City
has the highest population density of major cities in the United States. Thehas the highest population density of major cities in the United States. The
New York metropolitan area, with a population of 18.8 million, ranks amongNew York metropolitan area, with a population of 18.8 million, ranks among
the largest urban areas in the world.the largest urban areas in the world.
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New York City is comprised of
five boroughs, an unusual
form of government used to
administer the five constituent
counties that make up the
city.

5. Manhattan (pop. 1,593,200) is the most densely populated borough
of New York City and home to most of the city's skyscrapers. The
borough contains the major business and financial centers of the
city and many cultural attractions, including numerous museums,
the Broadway theatre district and Madison Square Garden.
Manhattan is loosely divided into Downtown, Midtown, and Uptown
regions. Uptown Manhattan is divided by Central Park into the
Upper East Side and the Upper West Side, and above the park is
Harlem.

6. Wall Street is the major financial centre of the U.
S. and symbolizes the money market and
financiers of the U.S. Wall Street was called so
because of a wall which extended along the
street in Dutch times. It was built about 1650 from
river to river (the Hudson and the East River) to
protect the small colony living south of this street
from attacks by Indians. Later the wall was
removed, but the name remained.

7. New York City Hall is the seat of the government of
New York City. The building houses the office of
the Mayor of New York City and the chambers of
the New York City Council. The building is the
oldest City Hall in the United States that still
houses its original governmental functions.
Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall
is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places.
Blue Room
Governor’s Room

8. When the World Trade Center towers were completed in
1973 many felt them to be sterile monstrosities, even
though they were the world's tallest buildings at that
time. But most New Yorkers became fond of "The Twin
Towers" and after the initial horror for the loss of life in
the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks there came
great sadness for the loss of the buildings. The complex,
located in the heart of New York City's downtown
financial district, contained 1.24 million m² of office
space, almost four percent of Manhattan's entire office
inventory.

9. The Manhattan Municipal Building is a 40-story building built to accommodate
increased governmental space demands after the 1898 consolidation of New York
City from The Five Boroughs. Standing 580 feet (177 m) tall, its highest point is the
second largest statue in Manhattan. The Municipal Building is one of the largest
governmental buildings in the world. Thirteen civic agencies of New York City and
a public radio station are located in the building, and 28,000 New Yorkers are
married inside of it each year. There are 25 floors of work space (served by 33
elevators), with an additional 15 stories in the tower.
Arch of Constantine
Civic
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10. Washington Square Park is one of the best-known of New
York City's 1,700 public parks. At 39,000 m², it is a major
landmark in the Manhattan neighborhood of Greenwich
Village, as well as a popular meeting place and center for
cultural activity. It is operated by the New York City
Department of Parks and Recreation. Most of the buildings
surrounding the park now belong to New York University.
The university rents the park for its graduation ceremonies,
and uses the Arch as a symbol.
Garibaldi Monument

11. Greenwich Village is formerly known as the "Bohemian
quarters" of the literary and artistic world. Its many
quaint streets, curio shops and outdoor shows
maintain a continuous sightseeing appeal. Artists,
writers, sculptors, composers, poets, ac­tors make
their homes in the Village. The Outdoor Art Exhibits
are a colourful affair held twice a year in the Village.
Jefferson Market Library

12. The Chinatown is an ethnic enclave with a large
population of Chinese immigrants, similar to other
Chinatown districts in American cities. By the
1980s it became the largest enclave of Chinese
immigrants in the Western Hemisphere. By 1870,
there was a Chinese population of 200. By the
time the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 was
passed, the population was up to 2,000 residents.
By 1900, there were 7,000 Chinese residents, but
fewer than 200 Chinese women.

13. The city's 39 largest theatres are
collectively known as "Broadway”.
Broadway theatre is the most
prestigious form of professional theatre
in the U.S., as well as the most well
known to the general public and most
lucrative for the performers, technicians
and others involved in putting on the
shows.

14. The Woolworth Building, at 55 stories, is one of the oldest and one of
the most famous skyscrapers in New York City. With splendor and a
resemblance to European Gothic cathedrals, the structure was
labeled the Cathedral of Commerce. The structure has a long
association with higher education, housing a number of Fordham
University schools in the early 20th century. Today the building
houses, among other tenants, Control Group Inc, and the New York
University School of Continuing and Professional Studies' Center for
Global Affairs.

15. The Brooklyn Bridge is one of the oldest
suspension bridges in the United States,
stretches 1825 m over the East River
connecting the Manhattan and Brooklyn. On
completion, it was the largest suspension
bridge in the world and the first steel-wire
suspension bridge. The bridge cost $15.1
million to build and approximately 27 people
died during its construction. A week after the
opening, on May 30 1883 a rumor that the
Bridge was going to break down caused a
stampede which crushed and then killed
twelve people..

16. Pennsylvania Station is the major intercity rail
station and a major commuter rail hub. The
station is located in the underground levels of
Pennsylvania Plaza. Penn Station is at the
center of the Northeast Corridor, an electrified
passenger rail line extending south to
Washington, D.C. and north to Boston. The
station saw 4.3 million Amtrak boardings in
2004, more than double the traffic at the next
busiest station, 30th Street Station in
Philadelphia.

17. Times Square is at the junction of Broadway and
Seventh Avenue. Times Square consists of the
blocks between Sixth and Eighth Avenues from
east to west, and West 40th and West 53rd
Streets from south to north, making up the
western part of the commercial area of Midtown
Manhattan. Smaller than Red Square in Moscow
or Trafalgar Square in London, Times Square
has nonetheless achieved the status of an iconic
world landmark and has become a symbol of its
home city. Times Square is principally defined by
its animated, digital advertisements.

18. The Empire State Building rises to 381 m at the 102nd floor,
and its full structural height (including broadcast antenna)
reaches 443 m. The building has 85 stories of commercial and
office space and an indoor and outdoor observation deck on
the 86th floor. The remaining 16 stories represent the spire,
which is capped by a 102nd floor observatory, and atop the
spire is an antenna topped off with a lightning rod. The Empire
State Building is the first building to have more than 100 floors.
It has 6,500 windows, 73 elevators and there are 1,860 steps
from street level to the 102nd floor. It has a total floor area of
approximately 254,000 m².

19. The New York Public Library (NYPL) is one of the
leading public libraries of the world and is one of
America's most significant research libraries. It is
composed of a very large circulating public library
system combined with a very large non-lending
research library system. NYPL consists of 86
libraries in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten
Island: four non-lending research libraries, four
main lending libraries, a library for the blind and
physically handicapped, and 77 neighborhood
branch libraries. All libraries in the NYPL system
may be used free of charge by all visitors.

20. The United Nations Headquarters occupies six
block area. The 39-story Secretariat Building
houses offices of about 5,000 persons of
different nationalities who form the
administrative organ of the United Nations.
The shallow-domed General Assembly is the
meeting-place of the representatives of the
member nations. The regular session is held
annually beginning in the fall .

21. Rockefeller Center is "a city within a city“. It is the largest
private building project ever undertaken in modern times It
is a complex of 19 commercial buildings with its own
restaurants, stores, theatres, post­-offices. In winter its
plaza is transformed from an outdoor restaurant to an ice-
skating pond Radio City Music Hall, where some of the
nation's most popular movies have their first showing
along with a spectacular stage show, is one of New York's
greatest attractions.
GE Building

22. Madison Square Garden has been the name of
four arenas in New York City. It is also the
name of the entity which owns the arena and
several of the professional sports franchises
which play there. There have been four
incarnations of the arena. It is the largest
indoor stadium in the city, home of all kinds of
sports, public events and elaborate
entertainments.
Basketball court

23. The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper.
It has 77 stories. Standing 319 meters high, it
was originally built to house the Chrysler
Corporation. The spire, measuring 58.4 meters
long and composed of Nirosta stainless steel
was hoisted to the top of the building on
October 23, 1929. The lobby is similarly elegant
and a must see for tourists. When the building
first opened, it contained a public viewing
gallery near the top, which a few years later
was changed into a restaurant. The former
observation floor became a private dining room
called the Cloud Club. The very top stories of
the building are narrow with low sloped ceilings,
useful only to hold radio broadcasting and other
mechanical and electrical equipment.
Elevator

24. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is a
preeminent art museum. It is regarded as the
leading museum of modern art in the world. Its
collection includes works of architecture and
design, drawings, painting and sculpture,
photography, prints and illustrated books, film,
and media. MoMA's library and archives are a
major resource and hold over 300,000 books,
artist books, and periodicals, as well as
individual files on more than 70,000 artists.
The archives contain primary source material
related to the history of modern and
contemporary art.

25. St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest decorated
Neo-Gothic-style Catholic cathedral in North
America. It is the seat of the archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and
a parish church, located just across the street
from Rockefeller Center. The eight deceased
archbishops of New York, six of them Cardinals,
are buried in a crypt under the former high altar,
visible from the entrance to the Lady Chapel in
the rear of the cathedral.

26. Central Park is a large public park (3.41 km).
With about twenty-five million visitors annually,
Central Park is the most visited city park in the
United States, and its appearance in many
movies and television shows has made it
among the most famous city parks in the world.
Central Park contains several artificial lakes,
extensive walking tracks, two ice-skating rinks,
a wildlife sanctuary, and grassy areas and
playgrounds for children. The park is a popular
oasis for migrating birds.

27. The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, which
includes Jazz at Lincoln Center, the
Metropolitan Opera, the New York City
Opera, the New York Philharmonic, the New
York City Ballet, the Vivian Beaumont
Theatre, The Juilliard School and Alice Tully
Hall, is the largest performing arts center in
the United States.
New York State Theater
Philharmonic Hall
Metropolitan Opera House

28. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, founded in 1937,
is a modern art museum. It is the last major work of Frank
Lloyd Wright, one of the world's most prominent and
influential architects. From the street, the building looks
approximately like a white ribbon curled into a cylindrical
stack, slightly wider at the top than the bottom. Paintings
are displayed along the walls of the spiral and also in
viewing rooms found at stages along the way. The
Guggenheim was founded to showcase avant-garde art
by early modernists such as Wassily Kandinsky and Piet
Mondrian.

29. The American Museum of Natural History has a
scientific staff of more than 200, and sponsors over
100 special field expeditions each year. The
Museum boasts habitat groups of African, Asian
and North American mammals, the "Star of India",
the largest blue sapphire in the world, an interesting
illustration of the growth and development of man.
The Hayden Planetarium, connected to the
museum, is now part of the Rose Center for Earth
and Space, housed in a glass cube containing the
spherical Space Theater.
Planetarium
Day 117

30. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the
world's largest and most important art museums.
The main building is located on the eastern edge
of Central Park. The Met's permanent collection
contains more than two million works of art,
divided into nineteen curatorial departments. In
addition to its permanent exhibitions, the Met
organizes and hosts large traveling shows
throughout the year.
Middle Age Hall
Roman Statue

31. The Cloisters is the branch of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated
to the art and architecture of the
European middle ages. The Cloisters
include the museum building and the
adjacent 16,000 m². The Cloisters
collection contains approximately five
thousand European medieval works of
art, with a particular emphasis on
pieces dating from the twelfth through
the fifteen centuries.
Cloisters-garden
Crucifixion

32. Columbia University is a private research university in the United
States. It has the most Nobel Prize affiliations of any institution in the
USA. It is home to the prestigious Pulitzer Prize, which, for over a
century, has rewarded outstanding achievement in journalism, literature
and music. It has been the birthplace of FM radio, the first American
university to offer anthropology and political science as academic
disciplines, and where the foundation of modern genetics was
discovered. Its Morningside Heights campus was the first North
American site where the uranium atom was split.
Butler Library